For a series where the majority of its first volume built up the mystery of the place known as The Black Barn, it took some real guts from creators Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino to actually show off what it was in the same volume.  Now that they’ve done that, what does the series have […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Wicked + The Divine vol. 9:  Okay Yes, Kieron Gillen does seem to find his way up here quite frequently.  It was honestly a tough choice this month between this and… well, it probably won’t be too hard to guess what other title I was considering for this spot when you start […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars Legends Epic Collection:  The Menace Revealed vol. 2 It’s not that there isn’t anything uninteresting in these solicitations.  It’s just that I don’t feel like giving this spot to the latest round of events, stunts, and next-volumes-of-series-I’m-reading that I’m expecting to be “good” rather than “great.”  Which is why I’m giving […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: WildCATs #1 (of 6) This shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been reading this blog for any length of time.  Warren Ellis may be wrapping up “The Wild Storm” in a few months, but he’s not done with his new take on the Wildstorm Universe.  We were already reintroduced to the new Wild Covert Action […]

Logan is back!  And his first order of business is taking out the evil organization known as Soteira whose leader, Persephone, has manipulated his death to their advantage.  Writer Charles Soule pretty much plays it straight here, giving us a(n only mildly) amnesiac Wolverine who has to reconnect with his lost memories in a way […]

Readers with long memories (or ones with the ability to click this link and scroll to the bottom of the page) may recall that I was originally planning to make a podcast out of this volume.  If the fact that you’re reading my review of it now suggests that something has gone wrong, well, it […]

We got a lot of little indications in the previous volume that things were not so great in the Commonwealth.  What made them interesting, however, was that it wasn’t clear whether or not they were indications that the largest community we’ve seen in the series yet was actually a dystopia or just a lot closer […]

Luna Brewster is troubled.  Troubled in a way that’s dangerous for her and those around her.  She’s visions of hurting those closest to her and hears a voice that tells her to do these things.  Luna has kept all this from her parents and the well-meaning school counselor who’s dealing with her own issues as […]

John Lynch travelling across America to warn the subjects of genetic experiments performed on them while he was director of International Operation.  That was the general gist of the solicitations for the issues collected in these volumes. Anyone familiar with the Wildstorm Universe who read them, however, could easily see that this was going to […]